Father and Son arrested for Sexual Battery involving Children

The Pickens County Sheriff’s Office arrested a father and son for sexual battery involving children charges. On Aug. 22, 2017, the Pickens County Sheriff’s Office initiated an investigation into information that a child had been sexually molested on multiple occasions. The investigation later revealed that from January of 2016 to August of 2017, two adult men later found to be a father and a son had engaged in sexual acts with three different victims that were all under the age of 11. It is believed that all of the incidents occurred at private residences and the events did not involve any type of abduction by a stranger but rather a situation where the two men were known by the victims. While attending his routine Sex Offender Registration appointment, 34-year-old Jason Riley Galloway was arrested at the Pickens County Sheriff’s Office on three counts of criminal sexual conduct with a minor in the first degree. His father, 63-year-old Rickie Freeman Galloway, was also arrested at the Law Enforcement Center on the Sept. 26, while providing a ride for his son to the Pickens County Sheriff’s Office. He is charged with one count of criminal sexual conduct with a minor in the fist degree. Both men are currently detained within the Pickens County Detention Center after a Pickens County Magistrate denied bond on all charges.